Tell me Americans, why should our children recite the pledge of allegiance every day they are in a public school...

Tell me Americans, why should our children recite the pledge of allegiance every day they are in a public school? I know why they do it, (enforce a hypertensive sense of patriotism from a young age), but why *should* they?

They shouldn't. It's Orwellian and disgusting

>The government gets your children 8 hours out of the day.
>For another 1/3, they are sleeping.
>The final amount of time is spent on homework and "the real world.1'
Just homeschool your niglets

Homeschooling creates social retardation

What's orwellian is idiots like you thinking these cliches are worth repeating

If you're going by that logic then I guess you could say in order to maintain stability in society a third of your day must go to to government. Or we could just overwork our employees and not educate our children.

If you were to homeschool your kids along with others in the community, that would not be the case.
Public schools (especially in inner-cities) poses a lot of problems for the social development of children as well.

>forcing children mindlessly drone allegiance to an institution
>not Orwellian

There's a reason it's a cliche, you stupid fuck

That would be ideal but it doesn't happen that way in practice

>The Pledge of Allegiance, as it exists in its current form, was originally composed in August 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855–1931), who was a Baptist minister, a Christian socialist,[10][11] and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850–1898). However, there existed a previous version created by Colonel George Balch, a veteran of the Civil War who went on to become auditor of the New York Board of Education. Balch's pledge, which existed parallel to the Bellamy version until the 1923 National Flag Conference, read:

>We give our heads and hearts to God and our country; one country, one language, one flag!

Your point?

No one needs to it's just like praying to your government like a god so fuck it

There are plenty of instances of communities coming together and choosing parents to act as a teacher to their children

Here in Ontario there are a lot of private institutions that exist to support community homeschooling efforts. They exist in every province.

Not in the states

Just a history of the pledge, not really a point.
I thought it was strange that so many so called freedom loving Americans are all for a collectivist and historically socialist notion being shoved into their kids heads.

I would just like to say that in the 20 minutes and like the dozen or so posts that nobody has mentioned anything that was FOR the pledge.

>every day
is this real?

Public school certainly doesn't prevent it.

Also public school literally churns out a bunch of psychotic school shooters.

Your argument is retarded.

It reinforces a nationalist mindset. I guess that's good if your into that sort of thing :^)

Although not so much a nationalist mindset in terms of a people or culture but rather a federal institution which is pretty gay

>believing a lack of social interaction doesn't harm a child's social development during formative years

I'm not arguing that public school doesn't have it's faults. Nice strawman though

I heard that my home state of missouri passed a bill that stated that all public schools must have their students "optionally" recite the pledge of allegiance every day that school is hosted. When I was in grade school it was every day.